Movie maker

Has anyone worked with Windows Movie Maker? I'm having some problems and if anyone can help me I'd sure appreciate it. I'm not having much luck getting microsoft's help without paying big bucks.
Thanks.

Dee, I've used it but it's been such a long time ago. Seems to me it's a rather buggy program. Not sure what you're attempting to do (digitize old VCR tapes, or making a film from some Powerpoint slides, making an instructional thing??)

I do *some* of online movie-like instructional materials for technical education as part of my work as a tech comm writer/editor. But I now use Adobe's Captivate. You can drop me a PM and I can try to help you.

Funny you should post this Dee. I am having problems with the Movie Maker as well. Now I loaded my video on Quick Time, and that works. You can download Quick Time for free. Other than that I use the Majix program, which I just love. You can be soooo creative.

Windows has a movie maker? Apparently I know NOTHING about it...LOL!

If you look at my myspace page you'll see two videos I made on my computer using movie maker. I found a movie maker web site where computer geeks will answer questions about movie maker...I was shocked to see how many problems surround movie maker.
Edelweiss...I've never taken video and tried to use it...I have been using photo's that I download from a file and insert them into the movie maker film slots...I absolutely love this program but cannot for the life of me figure out why I'm having this one problem. UGH!!!

JJ...I was surprised, too, to find out about the MM. My step-son showed me two years ago how to use it and I've been hooked ever since.

Keyhole...thanks sweetie...I will PM you.

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I truly have heartburn with several of Mickeysoft's products and I AM one of THOSE geeks...arghghgh!! LOL

Dee, I had to edit. I just jumped over to your Myspace. Your movie looks great (I'm thinking it's the one with the church?) I never took the time to build a blog or something like that, although I have a LinkedIn profile/page. I guess I never thought the life of a single tech writer was too interesting. Also I loved the picture of the cat with the helmet LOL...I feel like that cat many many days at work LOL.

keyhole you are one of those geeks?!That's great! Maybe you can answer a question for me too! I have a slide show that I would love to post on my homepage. It is large because it's 12 minutes long, and the pictures are big. Because of all the effects it has about 600 GB. How can I diminish the size? (Sorry I don't know the technical words in English).

I'm gonna check out your blog now Dee.

EW, I have made several slide show movies with Movie Maker. I like it, but I did have a problem when making a longer show. The short ones were fine, but I did a family one that is about 18 minutes and the show itself is fine when I play it back on the pc. It was transferring it to a DVD that I had the problem with. I also used Photostory and liked that one. My pc has a media center. I used to make my shows with that.

keyholes, a little off topic, but I loved the photos of your camping trip. I don't blame you for not naming kids online. My youngest is 19 and I'm finally cool with posting their photos online.

Maybe try compressing the pictures so that they aren't so high-res? I have a cheap little tool called Snag-it that I can open pictures with and compress the file size. I think it cost me less than $40. If you do a lot of this, it may be worth it. Snag-it is a screen capture tool, but it will open photos.

Unfortunately, picture files can get really big. I get a lot of photos or pictures that I take that are high-res off cameras. We usually like them high-res because they aren't so "grainy" but that comes at the price of them eating up a lot of memory/space.

Those aren't my kids, but my friends' children and two of their friends. Those kids are absolutely a blast! Since I never had sons, they're a trip for me to be around cause they are just so funny. One of the boys had never been more than 20 miles from home and had never been camping. So it was interesting to see his reactions and how much fun he had--kind of a sad situation there. He has a mom on disability who just can't afford to take the kids places so my friend gave him a weekend away to enjoy and just be a kid. My friend and the kids took off for an amusement park while Dan and I took off winery hopping. Talk about some whipped, tired kids after that weekend...they rode rollercoasters, swam, played manhunt after dark, carried firewood for us, and ate like there was no tomorrow. After seeing how boys can eat, I seriously was happy I didn't have to raise boys and cook for them LOL.